Tami+Suematsu

**SUMMARY: Tami Suematsu, age 19, died August 19, 1988 after a legal abortion done by Vern Wagner at Riverside Family Planning Center, a Family Planning Associates facility in Los Angeles**.

 Documents regarding Tami Suematsu, age 19, alleged that she underwent a [|safe and legal abortion] by Vern Wagner at Riverside Family Planning Center in Los Angeles on August 19, 1988.

Tami went into bronchial spasm and asthma-related respiratory failure then cardiac arrest. She was transported to a hospital, but died shortly after arrival.

Riverside Family Planning was a Family Practice Associates Medical Group facility and thus a member of the prestigious National Abortion Federation.

Other patients known to have died after abortion at FPA facilities include


 * Denise Holmes, age 24, 1970
 * Patricia Chacon, age 16, 1984
 * Mary Pena, age 43, 1984
 * Josefina Garcia, age 37, 1985
 * Lanice Dorsey, age 17, 1986
 * Joyce Ortenzio, age 32, 1988
 * Deanna Bell, age 13, 1992
 * Susan Levy, age 30, 1992
 * Christina Mora, age 18, 1994
 * Ta Tanisha Wesson, age 24, 1995
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nakia Jorden, 1998
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Maria Leho, 1999
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Kimberly Neil, 2000
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Maria Rodriguez, age 22, 2000
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chanelle Bryant, age 22, 2004



<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sources: LA County Autopsy File No. 64442; California Death Certificate 38833005990include component="tagCloud"